He allegedly rewarded the youngsters with sweets ‘to keep them on side’.

Ghumra, 38, who wanted to set up an Islamic religious school, is on trial accused of disseminating ‘terrorist propaganda’ in the form of a graphic Twitter video on his mobile phone between January 2013 and September 2014.

Simon Davis, prosecuting at Nottingham Crown Court, said: ‘The behaviour at the heart of this case relates to the defendant showing a terrorist publication to one of the children.

Gumra was arrested at his home in Harringworth Road, Leicester in 2015 (Picture: Google)

‘We say what the defendant was doing, saying and telling the children to do, amounted to indoctrination, radicalisation, or whatever word you want to use, at an early age.’

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He added: ‘He showed them Islamic State training videos, that included how to behead somebody.’